Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata

When he caught Greek spies in his camp, he did them no injury, but, after bidding them observe his army freely, let them go. [*](The story is told in Herodotus, vii. 146-147.)

Artaxerxes, the son of Xerxes, called Longhand, because of his having one hand longer than the other [*](Cf. Plutarch’s Life of Artaxerxes, chap. i. (1011 E).) used to say that it is more kingly to give to one who has than to take away.

He was the first to issue an order that any of his companions in the hunt who could and would might throw their spears without waiting for him to throw first.[*](Xenophon (Cyropaedia, i. 4. 14) attributes this innovation to the elder Cyrus; but Cf. Ctesias, Persica, frag. 40.)